رأينا من عهودِكُمُ

عهوداً ما عهدناها

We have seen in your covenants

Covenants we have never witnessed

أحاديثٌ ملفَّقةٌ

لدينا لاح معناها

Fragments of conversations

Whose meanings have become clear to us

بجاه اللَه أن تَطووا

شكوكاً قد طويناها

I implore you by God, fold away

Suspicions we have folded away

فلا قلتم ولا قلنا

كفى الفتنةَ ذكراها

Neither you spoke nor we spoke

Suffice it to mention discord

ونحن نُقيلُكم رِجْلاً

إليكم كان مسعاها

And we give you rest, leg

Toward you was its effort

ونُغضي دونكم عيناً

يسوء النفسَ مرآها

And we avert our eyes below you

A mirror the self dislikes its sight

وأُذْنٌ كان يطربها

حديثكمُ كففناها

And an ear that was thrilled

By your words we have stifled it

وأخبارٌ سمعناها

لأجلكمُ تركناها

And news we have heard

For your sake we have abandoned it

وأفعالاً رأيناها

كأنا ما رأيناها

And deeds we have seen

As if we never saw them

فلا تحكوا ولا تشكوا

فيكفي النفسَ شكواها

So speak not and complain not

For the self suffices its complaints

رأَت والبعدُ واديها

وأقصاها فأقصاها

It has seen and distance its valley

And its farthest, so its farthest

لأجل محبةٍ ثُلِمت

لنحفظها ونرعاها

For the sake of a love that was flawed

To preserve it and tend to it